Re: libtool optimization

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Kyle Sallee wrote:

> Rehacking libtool to support a faster shell is a good idea.
> But that should be done last after all the libtool shell syntax
> is optimized and invocation of external programs is minimized.

A better idea is to perform some optimization of the world's least 
optimized shell ("bash").  An excellent feature of bash is that it 
offers so much room for performance improvement.

A little time in the profiler will quickly discover where bash is 
being slow and then someone can re-write that bit of the code to be 
more efficient.  There has not been a release of bash for two years 
now.  Hopefully someone is working on more than collecting bug-fix 
patches (39 official patches already!).

Bob
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